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You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Top 7 Jazz References in "The Office" - #179

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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4.9770 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In today's episode, Peter and Adam discuss some of the funniest moments in popular culture that reference jazz. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

I'm not stupid.

0:18.3

I'm Adam Manus.

0:21.5

And I'm Peter Martin.

0:22.8

And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast.

0:24.6

Daily Jazz advice and entertainment coming at you.

0:27.5

Dude, what was that?

0:28.8

Well, today we're talking about the top seven jazz references in the television program,

0:33.9

The Office.

0:34.7

Nice.

0:35.1

And that's a little bit of one of my favorite ones, a little prelude, a little foreshadowing, if you will, since we're going to get dramatic. I love it when there's a show where obviously someone either loves jazz or hates jazz in the writing staff. Yeah. They put these references in all the time, yeah. I know. And I was, I'd always see these over the years since I was a kid. And I would always get so excited whenever jazz was mentioned in the mainstream media

0:55.5

and then I was like man I should keep a list of these and then as I was coming up to this I was like oh that's why I should have been keeping a list and I never did I had them floating around in my head yeah and I knew the office I'm a big fan of my off of the office and then of course the show's been off for a few years but my it's sort of cycling back with some young folks your kids aren't old enough yet but they'll get into it yeah yeah and of course, the show's been off for a few years. But it's sort of cycling back with some young folks.

1:11.8

Your kids aren't old enough yet, but they'll get into it.

1:13.7

Yeah, yeah.

1:14.2

And, of course, all this stuff is available on Netflix or whatever. No, my kids watched a B movie. You've seen this B movie? No. And there's a thing that Jerry Seinfeld does. He's done it in other shows, I think, where he says, you like jazz?

1:11.0

And now my little six-year-old son, that's all he says.

1:14.6

He looks at me, smiles and he. I think where he says, you like jazz? And now my little six-year-old son, that's all he says.

1:30.3

He looks at me, smiles and goes, you like jazz? Well, it's just like the perfect intersection for him between, you know, dad's world and some mainstream media, you know?

1:39.2

Totally. So, yeah, so if you have not familiar with the office, this will probably not be interesting at all. You can just tune in tomorrow. But you might get a little bit of interest. Just a quick thing. The office is literally a show about the office. Actually, there was the UK version. Did you ever see that one? Yeah, that's one of my favorite shows of all right. Yeah, that was great. With, what was the other? Dude, everybody knows what the office is. Okay, fine. Yeah. Okay, good. We didn't lose anybody.

2:01.8

Okay, good.

2:02.5

So the first one, let's jump right in,

2:04.6

because we actually may have more than seven. I got excited. And what, you know, what happened was, I remembered all these, but it's surprisingly hard to find these. Like, I thought I was just going to be able to Google, like jazz references

1:58.4

the office

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